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...Making Hay. Many an editorial writer promptly tried to set Stevenson and Truman right on what a "one-party press" really is. Said the Scripps-Howard papers: "In the real sense, a 'one-party' press would publish only the views of one party . . . That is the custom in many other countries. But any modern American paper that followed that formula would soon be out of business. The people who buy and read expect the newspapers to report the news . . . President Truman has enjoyed boasting that he was elected in 1948 despite the opposition of newspapers, although...
Makin' money and that ain't hay...
...Harry Truman was more apt to consider than he was to call. He had made political hay with his dramatic call of a special session on "Turnip Day" 1948, but the situation is quite different in 1952. There is no Republican 80th Congress to blame for all the things that have gone wrong; the Democrats have had a clear majority for four years. Because of the shotgun reconciliation at Chicago, the Truman Democrats cannot gracefully belabor their much-whipped boy, the Republican-Southern Democrat coalition. The Southern Democrats are back in the family, and one of them is even...
...thought at first I was dreaming. This is just a little common Irish village where nothing strange ever occurs, and this is something for the farmers to talk about while they cut the oats and bring the hay into the barn. Well, imagine, the bottle has been on the sea for eight months . . . Who knows where it has been? It may have traveled around the world. How did it escape being broken on the rocks? If you had only seen where I got it! It's all a mess of rocks. The hand of Providence must surely have guided...
HELSINKI, host to the Olympic Games, a city of 400,000, was abustle. Shop shelves were heavy with wares. Flaxen-haired girls in bright print frocks ate ice cream in the Mannerheiminiie. In the busy streets, pedestrians hailed taxis and visitors alike with their "Hej!" (pronounced hay), which, like America's "Hi!", serves equally as well as a greeting, a toast, or a bid for attention...